Sean H. Lane was sworn in as a U.S. bankruptcy judge in Manhattan on Tuesday, according to the court. He joins the bench after a decade with the U.S. attorney’s office, where he served as an assistant U.S. attorney and the chief of the Manhattan office’s tax and bankruptcy unit.

Lane’s previous experience includes a stint as a trial lawyer with the Department of Justice and four years in the Washington, D.C., office of law firm Baker Hostetler. The judge also has two clerkships under his belt, having worked for a district court judge in Pennsylvania and a district court judge in D.C. in the early 90s. He earned both his undergraduate and law degrees from New York University.

The addition makes Lane the 11th bankruptcy judge for the Southern District of New York, which has handled the high-profile Chapter 11 cases of Lehman Brothers, General Motors and Chrysler.

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